Dear Martin,
thank's a lot - unfortunately, my Stata does not like this solution..
. by country: keep in -100/l
'in' may not be combined with 'by'
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Martin Weiss<[email protected]> wrote:
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> sort country size
> by country: keep in -100/l
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> HTH
> Martin
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christian Weiß" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 10:24 PM
> Subject: st: Deleting Only Particular Observations
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>> Dear Statalist,
>>
>> Variable size contains the marketcap of about 2000 firms from 11
>> countries (grouping var country).
>>
>> I would like to keep only the 100 biggest firms (by marketcap) from
>> each country, and delete the residual observations.
>>
>> How can I accomplish this?
>>
>> Best regards
>> Christian
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